Soil And Waterways Have Affected People's Health

To prevent this terrible apocalyptic catastrophe, America should promote and reward good environmental behavior and also punish individuals who exhibit terrible environmental behavior. We are polluting our earth with smoking cigarettes, factory waste, vehicle waste and deforestation. We are not only polluting the air but also the water, the land and everything else that is apart of our world. With air, noise, and water pollution, the natural state of our world is decaying rapidly. Ever since the industrial revolution, the output of pollution is heavily impacting our world with polar ice caps melting and many ecosystems shutting down. In Source B, a discussion is used about how America should use Singapore as a good model for the environment. The government should raise the price of gasoline, plastic bags, and many other hazardous agents to the environment in order to reinforce a healthy and green

Fears of polluted air and water, and the extinction of wildlife species due to contamination have overtaken the western world. In an excerpt, titled “The Filth They Breathe in China,” taken from American historian, Michael Auslin’s book, the author focuses on the nation where, due to its rapid industrial growth, these effects of pollution are most prominent, China. In his article, Auslin, uses anecdotes, uses strong diction, and uses appeals to logic and credibility in order to capture the enormity of China’s pollution problem.

As the world looks on, people start to realize that the problem of environmental pollution is a global

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

Everything we do and every decision we make affects not only those near us but the whole world. Also, the actions we choose to take now will alter the future in either a positive or negative way. Through the phenomenon known as the Arctic Paradox, where the Arctic, the place furthest from sites of contamination wind up the most contaminated. Steingraber says, “this is how the most pristine corner of the earth has become the most chemically contaminated”. When the chemicals were initially sprayed, they were intended to treat a specific area. But through the process of global distillation, air is constantly rising and falling steadily advancing towards the poles where it gathers able to move no further. Another important thing I took from living downstream is the fact that the food that we eat daily comes from all around the world. Steingraber says, “farmers have become as dissociated from those who eat their food as consumers have from those who grow it”. Instead of local farms supplying its surrounding areas with food, local farms produce very few crops that are exported to other areas of the world. When we think about it, we know very little of where our food comes from and what chemicals they are exposed to while being produced and transported. And most people do not care, all they want is to be able to go to the store and have everything readily

Every time we shop the personal care section in malls or beauty stores, there are countless types of products. According to the survey of 2,300 people conducted by EWG 's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, we use nine personal products daily on average. One percent of men and twenty-five percent of women surveyed use 15 or more products every day. We use cosmetics and other personal care products without doubt of their quality and safety because we believe government and law regulate unhealthy ingredients and oversee the quality. But we barely pay attention to what we are using-- the ingredients, impact on human health and natural environment. Surprisingly, cosmetic companies are not required by the law or government to conduct any health study or product testing before selling these products. Thus, consumers are not well protected from potential harms caused cosmetics. In order to make sure we are using safe products, a green movement for cosmetics was started by some youth from high school in California. The objective of this movement was to challenge the cosmetic industry and government and require them to regulate the ingredients used in personal care products.

Did you know (personification) pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million more people every year? Americans make up 5 percent of the world's population, and yet, produce 30 percent of the world's waste and use 25 percent of the world's resources. Agricultural and industrial waste will cause contaminated water, containing bacteria and parasites. In South Asia, water pollution causes a child to die every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water. Lake Karachay, found in Russia, is the most radioactive and polluted lake in the world. As you see from each of these examples, the main causes of pollution include industries and agricultural activities, the impacts of which are devastating to both humans and the environment.

The United States and the world are starting to encounter lots of complicated environmental problems that all stem from human influence. Humans have been abusing our environment and have been carelessly taking its resources. It’s absurd for people not to have greater concern when its comes to how we are treating our environment. Climate change is real, pollution is real, and lots of plant and animal species are diminishing at an alarming rate; furthermore, this issue can improve substantially if we start making some better, more ethical decisions. We should not only be concerned with our own lives, but we should be thinking about how our actions toward the environment will affect our children and how it affects other species on this planet.

With a population of 6.8 billion and growing at a rate of about 75 million per year, it is important we have a safe environment to live in. “Every time we venture beyond the boundaries of our everyday world, whether traveling to a less-developed country or camping in a wilderness area, we are reminded of the importance of these basics: clean water, sanitary waste disposal, safe food, and insect and rodent control” (Core Concepts 572). Elements that we survive on and that are being polluted are our air and water quality. As well as our solid waste, chemical, radiation, and noise pollution having a detrimental effect on the world we live in. Our surrounds directly affect our personal health and we affect what surrounds us, so improving what we can is the most important responsibility we have.

Scientists believe that a pleasant environment can relieve mental stress. However, there is a poor understanding of how the environment affects human health, due to lack of conclusive study in this field. The relationship between people and their environment is known as topophilia. Ogunseitan pinpoints the main characteristics of restorative landscapes in a representative population, according to the four categories connected to topophilia: synesthetic tendency (the combination of sensory stimuli and memory of a place), environmental familiarity, cognitive challenge, and ecodiversity. In Ogunseitan’s study, he assessed stressed humans using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) quality of life survey (WHOQOL-Bref). Quality of life (QOL) can be defined as someone’s satisfaction of their life, factoring in their culture, values, standards, goals, and expectations. This 26-question WHOQOL-Bref survey shows reliability across the four domains of health: physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships, and environmental support. In his study, Ogunseitan hypothesized that those with a high QOL have a higher probability paying attention to their environment, and that the preference for ecodiversity corresponds to high QOL. Ogunseitan used WHOQOL-Bref surveys that asked people about their preference for flowers, water bodies, etc. The results highlight specific characteristics of environments and landscapes that have a higher probability of increasing QOL and

The initial article that I have chosen is an overview of the connection between human health and groundwater. Written by Stephen Foster and Gillian Tyson (2016), the key messages of this article are how many of us rely on groundwater, which makes us more susceptible to pollution, and the effects of pesticides and chemicals. Published by the International Association of Hydrogeologists, this article directly relates to two of the United Nation’s Sustainability Goals, which are Clean Water and Sanitation, and Good Health and Well-Being, as well as being indirectly related to many others.

Many Americans have thought of places without access to clean water as third world countries, not places right here at home like Flint, Michigan with their lead infested waters. In contrary to popular belief, Flint is just one of thousands of contaminated water sites that happen right here in America and is America’s first look into the issue. This crisis was first brought to my attention when I have visited China and had a tasted of this problem, in the summer before my sophomore year of high school. In the larger cities, they have very unsafe drinking water, the tour guide (a Beijing native) does not trust the system and advises everyone to not drink water that restaurants provides you or even from water bottles because of how horrible the Chinese sewage system is. The tour guide actually provided us with a filter to filter our water. However the water in villages, such as my mom’s hometown, has to face an even devastating problem they have to face where they did not even have proper plumbing in order to conserve their water. The only source of their drinking water comes from a single well, drilled in the center of the village. If this well was to be contaminated then the people who can afford it, would have only bottled water to survive on and some who cannot will have no water until the next rainfall. In a privileged country, Americans hear about all of these stories of how people struggle but to really see it in person, it is very different and that is why this water

Imagine going to the local lake or driving hours on a family vacation to the beach, and to just see the surface of the water discolored with litter as far as the eye can see. Pollution has been one of the most talked about issues within our society. It damages the air we breathe and the water we drink every day. There is even an event happening in Flint, Michigan where their drinking water had a series of problems that culminated with lead contamination, creating a serious health hazard for the public. The corrosive Flint River water caused the lead from aging pipes to seep into the city’s water supply. The pollution of water is causing human death across the nation and even across the world. Pollution is also responsible for weakening the

has been known to cause some health problems due to pollution. From minor illnesses such as rashes and diarrhea to major illnesses such as liver failure, respiratory problems and neurological effects. “Polluted drinking waters are a problem for about half of the world’s population. Each year there are about 250 million cases of water-based diseases, resulting in roughly 5 to 10 million deaths.” {http://www.pacinst.org}. To know that water, which we need to survive on is being contaminated to the point that it is posing a health threat to half the population is bothersome. We need water to survive and thrive on, and now we can’t even drink water without worrying what health risk the water poses. Polluting the water a few times is understandable and can

As an aggressively growing economy, India faces a lot of in order to meet the resource, water and energy needs. As the economy grows so does the need for energy. Energy consumption in India is increasing at an annual rate of 4% whereas the economic growth of the country has been around 8% annually over the past five years. Though historically India enjoyed excess water reserves, these resources have now become scarce because of overexploitation and uncontrolled population growth and this increasing population will continue to be a pressure in the future on India’s resources. The cement industry has a high impact on the environment, it uses large quantities of water, energy and contributes close to 5% of the global carbon dioxide emissions.